How to Make Frosting from Scratch

Frosting is the perfect finishing touch to cookies, bars and cakes. There are a number of recipes with which you can make smooth, creamy, rich and delicious frosting. You can bring about a lot of variations in homemade frosting as well. Some of the changes you can make include adding different colors of your choice, and adding fruit, candy or nuts for different textures and flavors. You may also choose to add flavor oils, which can also lend a different flavor to the frosting all together.

How to Make Frosting from Scratch

Once you read on making frosting from scratch, you will also agree with me that it is indeed easy to make frosting. We will now see how to make frosting using confectioner's sugar. You may want to read on caramel frosting. Let's see the ingredients required for the same.

Ingredients

• Butter 1 stick
• Milk 2 tablespoons
• Vanilla Extract 1 tablespoon
• Confectioner's Sugar 16 oz

Method

• Soften the butter and place in a large bowl.
• Use an electric mixer and whip the butter till it becomes smooth and creamy.
• Add milk and vanilla extract to the butter and whip till vanilla is well mixed.
• Now add half the quantity of confectioner's sugar and whip till smooth.
• Once it has become smooth, add the remaining sugar and whip again and keep whipping till the frosting is smooth in consistency. Now your frosting is ready to be used.

How to Make Frosting with Powdered Sugar

If you do not have confectioner's sugar, you can also make use of powdered sugar to make frosting. However, I will recommend you sift the powdered sugar before you use it to make the frosting. Click to read on caramel frosting recipe.

Ingredients

• Powdered Sugar 2½ cups
• Light Corn Syrup 1 tablespoon
• Softened Butter 1 tablespoon
• Vanilla Extract 1 tablespoon
• Water 2 tablespoons
• Food Color

Method

• Take a big bowl to make the frosting. Click to read on cake frosting recipes.
• Mix sugar, corn syrup, butter, vanilla and water.
• Stir all the ingredients with an electric hand mixer over low-speed, till all the ingredients have become smooth and are mixed well.
• If while mixing you are of the opinion that the frosting is very thick, then you can add water to it, to get it to the desired consistency.
• At last add the color and stir well, so that the color is spread evenly through the frosting.

How to Make Homemade Frosting Without Powdered Sugar

Frosting can also be made without powdered sugar. Granulated sugar can also be used in the recipe. It is a simple recipe, which you will relish. Click to read on easy chocolate frosting recipe.

Ingredients

• Milk 2 cups
• Flour 10 tablespoons
• Granulated Sugar 2¾ cups
• Cream of Tartar 1/8 teaspoon
• Vanilla 1 teaspoon

Method

• In a saucepan cook milk and flour together, till it comes to a slow boil over low heat. Read on cream cheese frosting recipe.
• You will have to stir constantly, till it cooks to the consistency of pudding. Then let the mixture chill. You may want to read on chocolate cake frosting.
• While the mixture is cooling, combine sugar, tartar and vanilla and keep mixing, till the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
• Then add the cooled mixture to the sugar mixture and mix well, to have the frosting ready.

For more information, read

• Buttercream Chocolate Frosting
• Buttercream Cake Frosting
• Dark Chocolate Frosting

If the frosting has become very runny in consistency, you need not worry, as making frosting thicker is not only possible, but a simple task. To make the frosting thicker, you can add a little more of powdered sugar to the frosting and whip till it reaches the right consistency. If you are using granulated sugar, then you can add granulated sugar itself. I hope with this article on how to make frosting, you will take to making frosting at home, as I have taken to it.